WBKO School Features
WBKO Student of the Week
View outstanding students in the area on our Student of the Week Profiles page.
WKU Press Releases
Find out the latest WKU news in our WKU Press Release listings.
Geography Class Gets Fun For Elementary Students Save Email Print
Posted: 5:29 PM Dec 13, 2007
Last Updated: 7:23 PM Dec 13, 2007

A | A | A

Geography class just got a whole lot more fun for some Bowling Green elementary students.

A giant traveling map of Asia has been making its way across the country since National Geography Awareness Week began in early November.

The map is parked at McNeill Elementary until Dec. 14.

This unique teaching tool has been incorporated into PE class, making for a fun way to reinforce geographic literacy lessons on Asia that have been taught all year long.

"With the amount of importing products that we have and food and people migrating, we need to learn about this culture in our back door," explained Elizabeth Riggs, a McNeill Elementary 5th Grade teacher.

Riggs says Kentucky is lucky to have been included on the map's nationwide tour.

The map was at Potter Gray Elementary school last week.

More Stories
WBKO First Alert Weather Class

Kids Enjoy Back to School Bash

Shopping for Last Minute School Supplies

"Near Space" Launch a Success

"Near Space" Launch Set for Monday

WKU Board of Regents Approves Budget, Tuition Increase

Former WKU President Dr. John D. Minton, Sr. Passes Away

Bowling Green High Teacher Brings Alumni to Students

Post Your Comments
First Name:
Location:
Enter Comments: characters left
Email (optional):
Email will not be displayed on site. For station contact purpose only.
Education Headlines
  • Musicians Use Both Sides Of Their Brains

    Supporting what many of us who are not musically talented have often felt, new research reveals that trained musicians really do think differently than the rest of us.

  • Fewer S.C. schools meet raised federal targets

    Just 18 percent of South Carolina's elementary and middle schools met federal education goals this year as students did better on tests taken in the spring but failed to keep pace with raised benchmarks, ...

  • Affirmative action before voters in Colo., Neb.

    University of Colorado freshman Darian Salehy loves college life so far _ except for one thing.

    'It's all white people,' Salehy mused on the Boulder campus lawn recently, looking at fellow students headed to class.

    Salehy, of Iranian descent, fears that the state's flagship university, currently about 9 percent non-white, might become less diverse if Colorado passes a ballot measure banning government consideration of race or gender in university admissions, contracts and state spending.

  • Announcing New Web Site: Christian Home School Resources

    Christian Home School Resources is a new web site that offers parents that are home schooling their children support, guidelines, educational products, and links that are needed in order to educate their ...

  • Congolese Child Soldiers Still Being Recruited and Abused

    A report from Amnesty International claims as many as half of child soldiers returned to their families may have been reenlisted, despite a peace agreement.


Alice Lloyd College
Asbury College
Asbury Theological Seminary
Ashland Community College
Bellermine University
Berea College
Big Sandy Community & Technical College
Bowling Green Community College
Bowling Green Technical College
Brescia University
Campbellsville University
Central Kentucky Technical College
Centre College
Clear Creek Bible Baptist College
Cumberland College
Daymar College
Eastern Kentucky University
Elizabethtown Community College
Georgetown College
Hazard Community College
Henderson Community College
Hopkinsville Community College
Jefferson Community College
Jefferson Technical College
Kentucky Christian University
Kentucky Mountain Bible College
Kentucky State University
Kentucky Wesleyan University
Lexington Community College
Lexington Theological Seminary
Lindsey Wilson College
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Madisonville Community College
Maysville Community College
Mid-Continent College
Midway College
Morehead State University
Murray State University
Northern Kentucky University
Owensboro Community & Technical College
Pikeville College
St. Catharine College
Simmons Bible College
Somerset Community College
Southeast Community College
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Spalding University
Spencerian College
Sullivan University
Thomas More College
Transylvania University
Union College
University of Kentucky
University of Louisville
West Kentucky Community & Technical College
Western Kentucky University